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Google loves a good April Fool's joke, and you may remember that last week Google promised a new service called Gmail Paper. The concept was that you could request a hard copy of all of your emails, and Google would ship a box with printouts to your door.Sounds silly, right? But the idea of being able to back up your email is anything but. Sure, you can configure Outlook or Thunderbird to work with Gmail to collect your messages. But wouldn't it be great if there was just a button you could press to export some of your 2.8GB of email from Google's server?
Well, it looks like that might be more than just a pipe dream. Google has a new Gmail suggestion site up, where you can select from a list of features you'd like to see implemented. You can only select 5 of the 45 options, but here are a few of our favorites:
- Export messages to a CD for storage
- Filter outgoing messages
- Change the label system to folders
- Hierarchy of label systems (i.e. sub-labels)
- Sort messages by size, date, sender
- Turn conversation view off
- Ability to add or remove messages from conversations
- Integration with Google Calendard/Groups/Reader/Picasa/News/Blogger/Orkut/Google Talk
- To-do list
- Import messages from other email accounts
- Delete attachments from messages
- Add notes to messages
- Multi-person chat
- Have Gmail do my laundry
[via ZDNet]
Comments
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Subscribe to commentsSherifApr 10th 2007 10:10PM
"Have Gmail do my laundry"
ROFL.. wouldn't that be nice...
StreakerApr 10th 2007 10:10PM
You want to "Change the label system to folders"? I hope that "feature" doesn't change. That's one of my favorite things about Gmail!
JaymezApr 10th 2007 10:10PM
The ability to turn conversation view off is already there. I turned it off weeks ago.
XAroraApr 10th 2007 10:10PM
With regards to Gmail Paper, take a look at :
postboxonline.com, a Web-enabled personal postal service between a sender who has an Internet access, and the receiver who does not have it. Or simply, as the boys would have it, "email without the 'e'".
The modus operandi for the service involves any registered user withInternet-access registering with the site, either under the PersonalLetter Account or the Premium Account. The user can then type hismessage along with the postal address for the person for whom it isintended. The model developed takes messages from anywhere in theworld, gets them printed and delivers them to recipients residinganywhere in India through courier
[This site does not exist any longer, we closed it in 2001].
Here is a link: http://www.goanet.org/post.php?name=News&list=goanet-2000-2002&info=2001-January/date&post_id=003762
Dave ChartierApr 10th 2007 10:53PM
Put in my request for the features from the Macros Greasemonkey script. We need more keyboard shortcuts.
notatoadApr 11th 2007 4:03PM
labels are one of the best things about gmail. if you want folders, go to yahoo.
also, sublabels are unnecessary - just search for messages that have both labels.
BlackCoffeeNoSugarApr 11th 2007 12:35AM
Can't we request free Google TISP with every Gmail account?
jordanApr 11th 2007 1:09AM
I would like to have folders available, but would not want to give up the label system.
Jo
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YanApr 11th 2007 3:18AM
Thanks for the tip. Notes to my email messages sound just what I need!
FergyApr 11th 2007 9:18AM
I could be wrong, but i think this feature has been around for ages. I remember contacting Google a while ago and selecting 5 suggestions for improvements of the Gmail service.
AndrewApr 11th 2007 5:55AM
Here is something weird, if you change the language of the page for suggestions (top right) to English-UK you are cut down to a measly 11 suggestions as opposed to the English-US 45.
Why Google? What have we done to anger thee?